1. Clarissa Chun was inducted into the 2018 Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame and 2022 National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.
21 Facts About Clarissa Chun
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Clarissa Chun was among the inductees of the 2023 class of the National Federation of State High School Associations National High School Hall of Fame.
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On November 18,2021, Clarissa Chun was announced as the first head coach of the University of Iowa's women's wrestling program.
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Clarissa Chun was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Kapolei, Hawaii.
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In 2008, Clarissa Chun taught English to kindergarten students in Japan.
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Clarissa Chun had a guest starring role in Hawaii Five- 0 in Season three episode twenty as a contestant.
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On November 19,2021, Clarissa Chun was announced as the first ever Head Coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes Women's Wrestling Program.
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Clarissa Chun came from a judo background, winning five junior national championships before she tried wrestling in her junior year at Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Clarissa Chun captured the state wrestling title in 1998, the first year girls wrestling was a sanctioned sport.
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Clarissa Chun attended Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri and earned a communications degree from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
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Clarissa Chun was one of the charter members of the Valley program when it began in 1999, and was one of its most decorated.
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At the 2008 US Olympic wrestling team trials in June, Clarissa Chun gained the admiration of fans and media alike by staging a huge upset of seven-time national champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Patricia Miranda.
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Clarissa Chun lost in the bronze-medal match to 2004 gold medalist Irini Merleni of Ukraine, and made her mark at the international level by finishing fifth.
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Two months after the 2008 Olympic Games, Clarissa Chun turned in a superb effort to capture a gold medal at the World 2008 Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
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Clarissa Chun represented the US at the FILA Women's World Cup in China in 2009 and Japan in 2012.
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Clarissa Chun became the first women's freestyle wrestler to be nominated to her second Olympic Team after her stellar performance at the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling in Iowa City, Iowa, on April 22,2012.
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Clarissa Chun twice wrestled in the bronze medal match at the Olympics, winning her medal in London and taking fifth in Beijing.
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Clarissa Chun was a five-time world team member, winning the world title in 2008.
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Clarissa Chun is currently an assistant coach for USA Wrestling's women's national team.
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On November 18,2021, Clarissa Chun was chosen as the inaugural coach for the women's wrestling program at the University of Iowa, the first women's wrestling program among Power 5 schools.
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Clarissa Chun was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2022.